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9y ago
Anyone interested can read this paper - https://www.ijicta.org/index.php/ijicta/article/view/16 .
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9y ago
You should also try use AARRC.info . It is a full-fledged web service with multiple access techniques to flagship academic papers (Elsevier, IEEE, etc) using a solid browser extension. It is also a free service.
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I am a globetrotter and now in France working at a tertiary institution. I learnt french only for a few months, when I was younger (elementary school) as it was one of the compulsory languages to learn. Overtime, I lost it. On getting here
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11y ago
You rock! So is the issuing of PR permits for some countries.I have been there...
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11y ago
This is highly incorrect. Unless animals are genetically modified, they cannot ever think of being gay! It is the act of science that makes it possible. Nature won't.
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11y ago
There is another service in the pipeline. I came across it very recently; it is in a public-beta phase. It appears to focus on providing access to all digital libraries and specifically serving the third-world or developing countries, mostl
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11y ago
@Danieltrembath: Sounds like you work (@leisure) with the Hackerspace in Hawthorn. I used to come there before I moved to Perth. @All: Perth is quite dull for IT jobs. I only get calls from Melbourne/Sydney, most notably from the Progr
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I have always preferred and used Fedora over other linux distros. But the non-availability of Fedora LTS as resulted in a continuous upgrade of my machines, which is daunting. I have now chosen the RH/Fedora variant CentOS for all my m
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11y ago
Teachers, such as the Zen and Budda masters, always say it is a sign of reincarnation i.e. a person, who has a phobia, say for flying on an airplane, might have died from a plane crash in their past life.
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11y ago
Boredom is when your person wants to speak to you but the you is not conscious to notice it. In others, you just can't hear yourself for you don't know what it is speaking to you. In the same way, you don't know what to do ne
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11y ago
They (Moz. dev team) have now even gone wild by hiding the Addon SDK from developers. It's not on their servers but buried in github, covered by several versions of a new app./development tool. It took me a long time to locate it.
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Wireless in Africa: The Westerners think very differently from the Southerners
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The African Hacker News Is Back
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11y ago
Could you share more information about writing gulp (+plugins) in Haxe? I can't wait to learn it.
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I disabled this plug-in months ago because I was not too interested in who is watching me (of which I know - google analytics, facebook, and most importantly the NSA). I was rather more interested in blocking their APIs, scripts, e.t.c. Hen
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WHat an informative write-up to get a layman started with darknet. It is also reassuring that people could trust it to some extent. We live in a world that is turned upside down \o/. The good way is just the bad way turned inside out.
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Everything is fine with my infrastructure - network (active dir.) & PC time, e.t.c.. It might have in a different geographic area to the Google servers/CDNs though. One would never have expected this kind of weird error/notifi
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Gmail.. Of all Mailservers
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I can't agree more. Where does this plan leave desktop app dev. with Mozilla technologies? There are tonnes of projects (desktop apps) using XUL, XPCOM, e.t.c. SUre, the future is the Web (like Web OS, Unity, i.e. UI in HTML). Why can&
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It is always exciting to see more people leave the NSA bobby traps to reclaim their privacies. You may want to try https://www.hosteurope.de/E-Mail-Hosting/#Vergleich It's in Germany. I am not in full support of s
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I object your comment. It is point no. 14 here - http://higherperspectives.com/psychology-facts/?c=ss It's a fact!
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I was going to try use one of these solutions, when I read on the EFF that they all provide a single point of failure. If anyone gets hold of your master key/pwd, they would have access to all your usernames & pwds. https:/&#
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No, it is not for the web if it still requires a plug-in in this era of Webrtc, which is aimed at eliminating the use of plug-ins, at least the prevalent media plug-ins. The Skype app perhaps needs to be re-engineered/overhauled. Why w
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It will keep increasing until the Greece issue is resolved...
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No, it is not for the web if it still requires a plug-in in this era of Webrtc, which is aimed at eliminating the use of plug-ins, at least the prevalent media plug-ins. The Skype app perhaps needs to be re-engineered/overhauled. Why w
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Ask HN: Is the Quantum Energy Generator project another breakthrough project?
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The market is rapidly changing even though the household names in the publishing business have changed their profit-making strategies too. They now ask authors to pay an author's fee in order to make their articles available to the pub
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Shroom or LSD can! By the way, you will see in 4D. ANd don't forget that there is now 5D. :)
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And Australia. Well, one should not be astonished about Oz if her govt would even demolish the homes of her first nation people or Aboriginals. How much more the Africans that look like them! Oz men and women stare at blacks in general like
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11y ago
I keep seeing people making this wrong assumption that an Android device makes a linux-ish device. Android is a component-based linux. It can't play the role of a full-fledged OS that the diff. flavours of linux play.
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